HALIFAX—Clinicians at Halifax’s IWK Health Centre and the Hospital for Sick Children are using social media to ease the pain of children with cancer by providing...
MANILA – Health and environmental groups sounded the alarm over drug overdose and chemical poisoning that can seriously threaten the health and safety of senior citizens....
OTTAWA—A psychiatrist who has worked in First Nations communities says Health Canada makes some on-reserve patients jump through hoops—or wait longer—than non-indigenous Canadians to access prescription...
CHICAGO – Parental warning: Don’t lose sleep over new guidelines on how much shut-eye your kids should be getting. The recommendations range from up to 16...
VANCOUVER—Experts are questioning widely circulated Health Canada claims that the drug W-18 is 100 times more powerful than fentanyl, or that the new arrival to the...
TORONTO—More than 10 years ago, Jenn Fraser looked into her future and saw an image of herself in a wheelchair, the likely result of rapidly progressing...
MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday that more people are now beginning to have better positive understanding about the importance of voluntary...
BAGUIO CITY – Nephrologist Virginia B. Mangati has strongly discouraged the use of food supplements, saying that the “Alternative medicine lacks research and therefore not recommended”....
QUEBEC—A report by Quebec’s health and welfare commissioner says the province has the worst emergency room wait times in the western world. The report, released Thursday,...
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Like many others, I couldn’t resist joining the 2016 throwback trend. It was all over social media, with everyone sharing...
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